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president obama's offer to avoid the fiscal cliff was laughed at by republicans last week. this week the gop counter offered. theirs, extend tax cuts to the everyone including the rich. $2.2 million in areas from closing loopholes and deductions, savings on health care and cuts in discretionary spending. other than that, no specifics. president obama said the gop must agree to one thing to get anywhere close to a deal. >> we have to see the rates on the top 2% go up. we're not going to get a deal without it. >> speaker boehner fired back. >> this week we made a good faith offer to avert the fiscal crisis. now we need a response from the white house. we can't negotiate with ourselves. >> here we are just weeks away from going over the fiscal cliff. you probably wonder what's going on in these houses in washington. they put themselves and their political gains first and put their future in prosperity second. hey, you voted them in. remember what happened the last time washington got into a budget battle like this? lawmakers put a band aid on the problem and the u.s. lost its
president obama's offer to avoid the fiscal cliff was laughed at by republicans last week. this week the gop counter offered. theirs, extend tax cuts to the everyone including the rich. $2.2 million in areas from closing loopholes and deductions, savings on health care and cuts in discretionary spending. other than that, no specifics. president obama said the gop must agree to one thing to get anywhere close to a deal. >> we have to see the rates on the top 2% go up. we're not going to...
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>> in this context you are absolutely right. it was democracy in the late 80s and now they go over the top with protest. as far as the iraq thing goes it was controversial and all-around the world, let's face it. there was another protest as well that he was having a go about -- sorry i am losing -- i was talking to hannity this evening. >> the point being who can hate somebody who told the new york times his favorite hobby was drinking and knocked justin bieber off youtube? he is not that bad. >> he does his own choreography. >> this is my point, anti-americannism is fashion. he is a dirt bag, let's admit it. >> he was covered in gold paint and in a tank -- >> you can be the fashion around the world is being anti-american. >> that's because the u.s. military had driven over two 14-year-old south korean girls. they were not punished. >> well they went through the proper proceedings. >> and they got away with it. >> it was an accident. >> what should happen, they should go to jail? they are driving through these tiny roads and th
>> in this context you are absolutely right. it was democracy in the late 80s and now they go over the top with protest. as far as the iraq thing goes it was controversial and all-around the world, let's face it. there was another protest as well that he was having a go about -- sorry i am losing -- i was talking to hannity this evening. >> the point being who can hate somebody who told the new york times his favorite hobby was drinking and knocked justin bieber off youtube? he is...
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we'll have four great years of obama, two terms of hillary. >> all right. we'll see if, you know, it happens. how about your best and worst week, morris? >> it's my wife's birthday so i have to say that's my best week, her berth day today. >> nice. >> but for the country, there's a little known thing passed this week on lng exports. this is about obama 2.0. this will have a positive impact on the economy. i expect stocks and the economy boosting with this. maybe not a loser but oddball of the week is john mcafee. what is going on with him? someone who loves him, please reach out and help this man. this is a bad situation. >> yeah. that definitely is a bad situation. susan, best and worst. >> for the best week i gave it to john boehner because it looks like people in his conference are tarting to wake up and realize there has to be room for compromise. and that allows him to go into these negotiations with the president and really come up with a grand bargain, hopefully. for the worst week, it has to be senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. i just -- going
we'll have four great years of obama, two terms of hillary. >> all right. we'll see if, you know, it happens. how about your best and worst week, morris? >> it's my wife's birthday so i have to say that's my best week, her berth day today. >> nice. >> but for the country, there's a little known thing passed this week on lng exports. this is about obama 2.0. this will have a positive impact on the economy. i expect stocks and the economy boosting with this. maybe not a...
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. >> he did jump right on it. >> did this pr blitz here. there's also though an upcoming performance at the white house and will perform in front of president barack obama. some have signed a petition on whitehouse.gov to say he shouldn't perform. >> the president is supposed to attend that. we'll see. thank you. >>> john travolta and olivia newton john go back to their "grease" roots and pot smokers rejoice. it all happened in five chaotic days. we'll catch you up on the week that was, but first if your cell phone or other tech devices need recharging, new technology makes you the energy generator. cnn's gary tuchman explains in this week's "start small, think big." >> my name is aaron lemieux. i'm founder and ceo of tremont electric and the inven earth of the n power peg >> reporter: designed for hikers, bikers or anyone on the go. >> as you walk along it harvests and stores your human kinetic energy and recharges your mobile electronic devices from the energy that it harvests from you. >> peg stands for personal energy generator. >> demo
. >> he did jump right on it. >> did this pr blitz here. there's also though an upcoming performance at the white house and will perform in front of president barack obama. some have signed a petition on whitehouse.gov to say he shouldn't perform. >> the president is supposed to attend that. we'll see. thank you. >>> john travolta and olivia newton john go back to their "grease" roots and pot smokers rejoice. it all happened in five chaotic days. we'll catch...
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what happened on election night was that more than 70% of latinos voted for president obama. republicans will up the next morning and said, may be marco rubio was right. we have a problem. that has shaken up the politics of the issue. i will be interested to hear from senator warner on this. i think it has created the possibility for some movement on comprehensive immigration legislation that will also deal with more particular issues that you're talking about today, and we will be talking about tonight. i commend the miller center for once again having the incredible foresight to have seen this month ago and to realize that this be the issue that everyone will want to talk about after the election. i think all of you know that in washington -- the governor gave me a long and full sun introduction -- wholesome introduction. i think you know these three people very well. there is teresa sullivan who was president and wasn't president and now is president of the university of virginia. we are all very happy about that. she is also a professor of sociology focusing on a labor mo
what happened on election night was that more than 70% of latinos voted for president obama. republicans will up the next morning and said, may be marco rubio was right. we have a problem. that has shaken up the politics of the issue. i will be interested to hear from senator warner on this. i think it has created the possibility for some movement on comprehensive immigration legislation that will also deal with more particular issues that you're talking about today, and we will be talking...
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obama won the white house. but gays and lesbians lost the right to marry in california. >> we're trying to figure out what we do next. then we thought about the idea of a possible legal challenge to proposition 8, and serendipitously, a friend of my wife's came by the table. >> the friend suggested they would find an ally in her former brother-in-law who turned out to be ted olsen, a towering figure in the conservative legal movement. so that stunned you, right? >> yes, it more than stunned me. it stunned me, but i said if this is true, this is the home run of all times. i mean, the idea that ted olsen, this arch conservative, the solicitor general for george bush who had argued bush v. gore and basically put me in bed for a couple days, i was so depressed after bush v. gore, was interested in gay rights. i thought, let's check it out. >> didn't you have any doubts about ted olsen? >> you know, they say that politics makes strange bed fellows. you don't have a stranger bed fellow than me and ted olsen. >> i was
obama won the white house. but gays and lesbians lost the right to marry in california. >> we're trying to figure out what we do next. then we thought about the idea of a possible legal challenge to proposition 8, and serendipitously, a friend of my wife's came by the table. >> the friend suggested they would find an ally in her former brother-in-law who turned out to be ted olsen, a towering figure in the conservative legal movement. so that stunned you, right? >> yes, it...
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i don't expect to see a congressional law signed by obama that makes guy marriage legal. what i think is going to happen, if the court rules as a federal right to guy marriage, and that kind of ends the issue. but if it doesn't, guy marriage is moving forward in this country no matter what happens, no matter what the court does. by 2020, guy marriage will be legal in most states no matter what the court does. the public opinion has shifted on this issue, and i think that shift is permanent toward allowing guy marriage to happen. and the court are coming behind the issue on this. >> joel, many have asked members of its party to widen its tent and welcome nonconstitutional consistent sis including lbgt groups. should the supreme court issue a decision in favor of same-sex marriage, could that have any impact on the gop widening its so-called tent? >> yeah, i mean, a lot of it is depends on how far the court goes. you know, i sense there are probably going to be some unanswered questions to the whole guy marriage issue, even after this. look, the gop needs to be in the busin
i don't expect to see a congressional law signed by obama that makes guy marriage legal. what i think is going to happen, if the court rules as a federal right to guy marriage, and that kind of ends the issue. but if it doesn't, guy marriage is moving forward in this country no matter what happens, no matter what the court does. by 2020, guy marriage will be legal in most states no matter what the court does. the public opinion has shifted on this issue, and i think that shift is permanent...